Program: GN-2009A-Q-102
Title: | The formation of Lenticular galaxies: high S/N spectroscopy of Virgo S0s |
PI: | Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca |
Co-I(s): | Alejandro G. Bedregal, Michael Merrifield, Werner Zeilinger |
Abstract
We plan to determine the main physical drivers governing the formation
of S0 systems, and their dependency on galaxy mass. To this end, we
propose a spectral study of 21 lenticular systems to establish the
links between the properties of their stellar populations (ages and
chemical abundances) and their kinematic properties (masses and
dynamics). GMOS long-slit spectroscopy will allow us to measure
kinematics and line strengths out to large radii. We will combine
this information with available HST photometry and analyse it using
detailed dynamical and stellar population models. Existing data
already hint at interesting correlations between these properties, but
this much larger sample spans a factor of 20 in luminosity and two
orders of magnitude in dynamical mass, and will quadruple the number
of objects for which the requisite observations exist, allowing us to
make the first definitive study of these clues to the formation of S0
galaxies.
Publications using this program's data
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[data]
[ADS] Disentangling the stellar populations in the counter-rotating disc galaxy NGC 4550
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[data]
[ADS] The origin of S0s in clusters: evidence from the bulge and disc star formation histories
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[data]
[ADS] Diagnóstico de la galaxia remanente de una fusion NGC 4382
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[data]
[ADS] The complex globular cluster system of the S0 galaxy NGC 4382 in the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster